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(No Model.)

H. SCHNEIDER. NOTE PLATE FOR HEAD GOVERINGS.

No. 448,266. Patented Mar. 1'7, 1891.

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UNITED STATES ATENI @EEICE.

HEINRICH SCHNEIDER, OF OBERI-IAUSEN, GERMANY.

NOTE-PLATE FOR H EAD-COVERI NGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,266, dated March17, 1891.

I Application filed April 2, 1890. Serial No. 346,822. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HEINEIcII SCHNEIDER, of the town of Oberhausen, inthe German Empire, have invented a certain new and Improved Note-Platefor Head-Coverings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved noteplate and covering for the head5 and it consists of a light writing or note sheet or plate which isfixed in the roof of the said covering for the head, so that when thesame is gently touched with the hand, or by removing the hat or the likefrom the peg, the plate will be automatically released, will flap down,and render the note or other matter inscribed on the plate visible. Theobject of allowing the note-plate to flap down is to compel the wearerof the hat to read the note or such like inscribed on the said plate.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a section of a hat with thenote plate, slab, or sheet and the hook for holding the same in sideview. Fig. 2 is a side view of the note sheet or plate B and the hook Apartly in section. Fig. 3 is a view of the under side of the sheet orplate, and Fig. at is a side view of the hook.

ThehookA for holding the plate B is movably fixed to an angle of sheetmetal 0, to which the spring F is fixed, as represented in Figs. 2 andat. In the one position in which the hook A is in engagement with theplate B the spring lies against the shoulder a, so that the hook A ispressed forward by the spring F pressing against the nose 1). Above thenose to the hook A, which receives the edge of the plate B, the body ofthe hook is made on an incline, so that when the plate B is pressedupward the hook will be moved to the rear until the said hook snaps intothe sec ond position. (Shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.) The plate B isnow released from the hook A and can fall down around its hinge, asrepresented in Figs. 1 and 2. \Vhen the hat is hung on the hat-peg, thelatter will press against the note-plate and release the same from itshook, so that when the wearer takes his or her hat from the hook his orher attention will be called to the note made on the table or sheet.

It will be evident from the foregoing that the form and also the methodof attachment can be varied in many ways without dep rting from thenature of my said invention; and I also desire it to be understood thatI do not confine myself to the application of my improved note plate orslab to hats, as the same can also be applied to caps, bonnets, and thelike to the same advantage.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my saidinvention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I- declarethat what I claim is- A note sheet or plate B, attached to the roof of ahat or the like and being held by a movable hook A, which is operated onby a leafspring F, so as to retain the hook in two positions until apressure exerted on the plate B releases the latter from the hook andallows the plate to fiap down by gravity, substantially as set fort-h inthe foregoing specification, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

HEINRICH SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

F. H. THoMAs, A. SoIINIEwIND.

